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Saturday February 15, 2014 5:09 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market closed out its best week of the year yesterday as investors
focused on company earnings and brushed off another weak economic report.

Campbell Soup climbed after reporting earnings that beat the estimates of Wall Street analysts.
Cliffs Natural Resources, a mining company, also jumped after its earnings beat analysts’
expectations and the company named a new CEO.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 has wiped out almost all of its loss for the year after a big
slump in January and is now just 10 points below its record close of 1,848, reached on Jan. 15.

Stocks slumped last month because of concerns about growth in China and other emerging markets
and worries about the health of the U.S. economy.

The S&P 500 rose

8.8 points, to 1,838.63. For the week, the index rose

2.3 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average rose

126.8 points, to 16,154.39. The Nasdaq composite rose 3.35 points, to 4,244.03, its highest
close since July 2000.